magazines.com describes itself as "Since 1999, Magazines.com has been the #1 source for magazine subscriptions. Browse over 2,000 print and digital magazines at great prices!". It was registered in 1995, served from Frankfurt am Main, Germany. It has a valid HTTPS certificate, 5 of 6 common security headers, 4 tracking scripts.
What is magazines.com about?
The words appearing most often on the homepage, excluding common filler, are
a rough indication of subject matter rather than a description of the business:
- subscribe ×53
- start ×29
- instant ×28
- magazine ×26
- subscriptions ×9
- magazines ×9
- subscription ×9
- food ×6
- home ×6
- customer ×5
Does magazines.com publish the usual trust pages?
Found: about, privacy, terms. Not found at the usual addresses:
contact.
These were checked at conventional paths only, so a site using different URLs may
publish them elsewhere.
How does magazines.com compare with other domains analysed here?
Measured against the 75 domains in this index. This is a
small, self-selected sample — the domains people happened to look up — not a
representative sample of the web.
| Response time | Faster than 35% of them (median 494ms) |
|---|---|
| Security headers | More than 85% of them |
| Domain age | Older than 87% of them |
Related domains in this index
Analysed domains sharing the same network (AS16509 Amazon.com, Inc.):
- ciudad.com.ar
- cleveland.com
- doviz.com
- fansly.com
- funkypigeon.com
- lionparcel.com
- onebra.com
- promiedos.com.ar
Sharing a network means sharing a host or CDN. It implies nothing about a
relationship between the sites themselves.
Analysed domains built on a similar stack:
Other analysed domains served from the same country:
When was magazines.com registered?
magazines.com was registered on 18 January 1995, which makes it about 31 years old.
A registration this old means the domain has been renewed repeatedly, which costs money every year and is not something abandoned or disposable projects tend to do.
The registrar of record is MarkMonitor Inc..
Registration runs until 12 November 2030.
The domain carries 6 registry locks, which blocks unauthorised transfer or deletion.
| Registered | 18 January 1995 |
|---|---|
| Expires | 12 November 2030 |
| Registrar | MarkMonitor Inc. |
| Registry status | client delete prohibited, client transfer prohibited, client update prohibited, server delete prohibited, server transfer prohibited, server update prohibited |
Where is magazines.com hosted?
The first address resolves to infrastructure in Frankfurt am Main, Germany.
The network is operated by AWS CloudFront (GLOBAL) (AS16509 Amazon.com, Inc.).
Hosting location describes where the responding server sits, not where the business is. A CDN will report its nearest edge rather than the origin.
What is magazines.com running on?
magazines.com exposes 2 identifiable technologies: Google Analytics, Google Tag Manager.
Visitor tracking is present (Google Analytics and Google Tag Manager), so this homepage is not cookie-free.
- Google Analytics
- Google Tag Manager
How does the homepage respond?
The server answered with HTTP 200 over
HTTPS.
At 711ms to first byte this response is slow for a homepage measured from a single European location.
The HTML weighs 209KB, which is ordinary for a homepage.
No compression is applied to the HTML. Enabling gzip or brotli usually cuts transfer size by around two thirds at no cost to the server.
| Server header | Apache |
|---|---|
| Compression | none |
| Page size | 213,618 bytes |
| Declared language | en |
| Mobile viewport | declared |
What does the homepage say about itself?
The title is 55 characters, inside the range that displays without truncation.
A meta description of 139 characters is present.
1 of 79 images carry no alt attribute, which leaves them unreadable to screen readers and uninterpretable to image search.
| Title | Magazine Subscriptions: 2000+ Print & Digital Magazines (55 chars) |
|---|---|
| Meta description | Since 1999, Magazines.com has been the #1 source for magazine subscriptions. Browse over 2,000 print and digital magazines at great prices! (139 chars) |
| H1 | 2,000+ Print & Digital Magazines (1 on the page) |
| Canonical | https://www.magazines.com |
| Open Graph title | not set |
| Headings / images | 59 H2s, 79 images (1 without alt text) |
Is magazines.com served over a valid certificate?
The HTTPS certificate is issued by Amazon and is
valid until 2026-12-13, which is 69 days from the date of this check. It covers
5 hostnames.
- magazines.com
- store.travelandleisure.com
- *.magazines.com
- *.cr-iframe.magazines.com
- cr-iframe.magazines.com
The certificate has 69 days left to run.
Which security headers does it set?
5 of 6 are set (HSTS, Content Security Policy, X-Content-Type-Options, X-Frame-Options, Referrer-Policy). Absent: Permissions-Policy.
| Header | Set | Value |
|---|---|---|
| HSTS | yes | max-age=31536000; includeSubDomains |
| Content Security Policy | yes | frame-ancestors 'self' https://bhg.com https://*.bhg.com https://people.com https://*.people.com https://realsimple.com |
| X-Content-Type-Options | yes | nosniff |
| X-Frame-Options | yes | SAMEORIGIN |
| Referrer-Policy | yes | strict-origin-when-cross-origin |
| Permissions-Policy | no | — |
How is DNS configured for magazines.com?
| IP addresses | 65.8.131.78, 65.8.131.96, 65.8.131.118, 65.8.131.104 |
|---|---|
| Reverse DNS | server-65-8-131-78.fra60.r.cloudfront.net, server-65-8-131-96.fra60.r.cloudfront.net |
| Name servers | ns-1606.awsdns-08.co.uk, ns-29.awsdns-03.com, ns-927.awsdns-51.net, ns-1205.awsdns-22.org |
| Mail (MX) | aspmx.l.google.com (pri 1), alt3.aspmx.l.google.com (pri 10), alt4.aspmx.l.google.com (pri 10), alt1.aspmx.l.google.com (pri 5), alt2.aspmx.l.google.com (pri 5) |
| SPF | v=spf1 mx ip4:67.216.170.206/32 ip4:66.55.12.235/32 include:spf.protection.outlook.com include:us._netblocks.mimecast.com include:_spf.google.com ~all |
| TXT records | 19 |
magazines.com resolves to 4 addresses, which indicates load balancing or a CDN rather than a single origin server.
Mail is handled by 5 exchangers.
An SPF record is published, giving receiving servers a rule for which hosts may send as this domain.
Reverse DNS resolves to server-65-8-131-78.fra60.r.cloudfront.net, server-65-8-131-96.fra60.r.cloudfront.net, which usually names the hosting provider.
Who runs DNS and mail for magazines.com?
DNS is operated by Amazon Route 53 rather than self-hosted name servers.
Mail is handled by Google Workspace.
No AAAA records are published, so the site is reachable over IPv4 only.
What else is worth noting about magazines.com?
8 of 8 externally hosted scripts carry no subresource integrity hash. If one of those hosts were compromised, the replacement script would run with full access to the page.
4 email addresses appear in the homepage markup, where address-harvesting crawlers will find them.
Can magazines.com be spoofed in email?
DMARC is set to reject, the strictest setting: mail that fails authentication is refused outright. This is the configuration that actually stops domain spoofing.
CAA records restrict certificate issuance to 6 named authorities (issue comodoca.com, issue letsencrypt.org, issue sectigo.com, issue trust-provider.com), so no other CA should be able to issue for this domain.
The zone is not DNSSEC-signed. That is still the norm for most domains, but it means DNS answers cannot be cryptographically verified.
What does robots.txt allow?
robots.txt is 965 bytes and names
1 user-agent group.
It does not blanket-disallow general crawlers.
Sitemaps declared:
- https://www.magazines.com/sitemap_magazines.com.xml
AI crawler policy
robots.txt names no AI crawlers specifically, so they fall under whatever rule
applies to User-agent: *.
What structured data does the homepage publish?
- Corporation
- ContactPoint
- WebSite
The homepage publishes 3 structured data types: Corporation, ContactPoint, WebSite.
What does magazines.com load from third parties?
The homepage pulls resources from 10 third-party hosts (cdn-widgetsrepository.yotpo.com, cdn.attn.tv, ct.pinterest.com, facebook.com, fonts.googleapis.com, fonts.gstatic.com). Each one sees the visitor IP and user agent on every page load.
4 cookies are set before any interaction (AWSALB, AWSALBCORS, CRTJSESSIONID, tgtg_crt). 1 lacks the Secure flag.
The page links or refers to LinkedIn, Facebook, Instagram, YouTube.
| Cookie | Secure | HttpOnly | SameSite |
|---|---|---|---|
| AWSALB | no | no | none/unset |
| AWSALBCORS | yes | no | none |
| CRTJSESSIONID | yes | yes | none/unset |
| tgtg_crt | yes | yes | none/unset |
Does magazines.com settle on one address?
Plain HTTP redirects to HTTPS, so visitors who type the bare address still land on the secure version.
Both magazines.com and www.magazines.com answer with 200 and neither redirects to the other. Search engines therefore see two complete copies of the site, and link equity is split between them unless a canonical tag resolves it.
How easily can magazines.com be crawled?
A sitemap is served at https://www.magazines.com/sitemap_magazines.com.xml listing 1,721 entries.
The most recent lastmod date is 2026-10-04.
A deliberately invalid URL correctly returns HTTP 404, so missing pages will not be indexed.
What tracking does magazines.com run?
4 tracking scripts detected: Google Analytics, Google Tag Manager, Meta Pixel, TikTok Pixel.
A consent platform is in place (OneTrust), so in the EU and UK these should only fire after the visitor agrees.
How does magazines.com look when shared?
No Open Graph or Twitter Card tags are present. Links shared to social platforms will fall back to whatever the platform can scrape, usually just a bare URL.
How are images, fonts and scripts handled?
79 images on the homepage, 0 of them lazy-loaded (0%).
All image references use JPEG, PNG or GIF. WebP or AVIF typically cut image weight substantially at the same visual quality.
No srcset attributes are used, so every device is served the same image size regardless of screen.
Fonts are loaded from Google Fonts, which means every page view also contacts Google. Self-hosting removes that dependency.
The page pulls 3 external stylesheets and 8 external scripts, with 4 carrying defer or async.
Responses carry Amazon CloudFront and edge cache edge headers, so content is served from a CDN rather than straight from the origin.
Is magazines.com accessible and current?
The page uses 4 landmark elements and 180 ARIA attributes.
The viewport tag disables pinch-zoom. That fails WCAG 1.4.4 and is a genuine problem for anyone who needs to enlarge text.
There are 2 form inputs but only 1 label elements, so some fields may be unlabelled for screen readers.
No skip-to-content link was found, which keyboard users rely on to bypass navigation.
Can search engines index magazines.com?
Nothing on the homepage prevents indexing: no noindex is set in the robots meta tag or the X-Robots-Tag header.
The homepage carries 326 internal and 9 external links across 8 outside hosts.
Visible text is only 4.7% of the HTML, which indicates the page is assembled in the browser rather than served as content.
How is magazines.com delivered?
The HTML is served with Cache-Control: no-cache.
The TLS certificate also covers 1 subdomain: cr-iframe.magazines.com.
- cr-iframe.magazines.com
Frequently asked questions
Does magazines.com set the usual HTTP security headers?
It sets 5 of 6. The ones not present are: Permissions-Policy.
Does magazines.com allow AI crawlers?
robots.txt names no AI crawler specifically, so they fall under the wildcard rule, which does not disallow them.
What is magazines.com built with?
The homepage exposes these fingerprints: Google Analytics, Google Tag Manager. A site behind a CDN or rendered server-side may use more than it reveals.
Where does this data come from?
Every figure was measured by our own server on 5 October 2026: DNS lookups, one HTTPS request to the homepage, a TLS handshake and a request for robots.txt. No third-party SEO API is involved.
Is any of this traffic or authority data?
No. Traffic, authority and ranking figures cannot be measured by inspecting a domain, only modelled. Everything here is a direct observation.
I own magazines.com and want this page removed.
Ask through the contact page on this site, from an address at the domain, and the report will be taken down. It only ever shows what the domain already serves publicly.
Analysed 5 October 2026.
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